“The Remains of the Day” is an almost perfect book, and “Never Let Me Go” is one of the central novels of our age.
October 5, 2017
“Ishiguro writes a prose of provoking equilibrium—sea-level flat, with unseen fathoms below,” James Wood wrote, in 2015.
October 5, 2017
The mistakes in a contested Times review of “Blurred Lines” are tangled up in disputes that don’t have obvious answers.
October 4, 2017
When I first clapped eyes on him—owl-faced, balding, much taller than I'd expected—I was twenty-three and suddenly as uncertain as I had been as a schoolboy.
October 2, 2017
Why the 1957 cult classic “The Lonely Doll” still haunts the imaginations of a generation of women artists, from Kim Gordon to Cindy Sherman.
September 26, 2017
Rigorous lessons are not mutually exclusive from culturally and politically relevant ones.
September 23, 2017
“I remember as young as four or five, I thought that if I could speak in standard Arabic I would be physically able to fly.”
September 22, 2017
Thanks to my parents transplanting me often from one ethnic mix to another, I’ve become something of a code-switching connoisseur.
September 22, 2017
It’s our democracy’s fail-safe, its shield, its sword—and its ultimate weapon for self-defense. But intense political opposition doesn’t provide sufficient cause for impeachment.
September 20, 2017
A new book traces a steady stream of urine through centuries of canvases, fountains, and frescoes.
September 20, 2017
